Brooklyn Center's city council Saturday passed a police reform package, a plan that includes having unarmed citizens handle non-moving traffic violations.
The plan, called the Daunte Wright and Kobe Dimock-Heisler Community Safety and Violence Prevention Resolution, also would prohibit Brooklyn Center police officers from making arrests for low-level offenses.
"The resolution will not require police officers to violate state law," said Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliot, who came up with the reforms. "The resolution will not deputize unarmed residents onto the roads to make traffic stops."
Opponents say the reforms will not improve public safety in Brooklyn Center.
This comes about a month after Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop by a Brooklyn Center officer.
"I don't to have to see somebody in six months to a year doing the exact same thing that we are as families," said Daunte's mother Katie Wright. "Standing here and begging for change, begging for our children to be safe, driving a vehicle, sitting in their own home."
Kim Potter resigned from the police department and was charged with second-degree manslaughter.
She's back in court on Monday.
21-year-old Kobe Dimock-Heisler was shot and killed by two Brooklyn Center police officers in 2019.
Hennepin County prosecutors say he had grabbed a knife and tried to attack the officers.
Charges were not filed in that case.
